Quotes About Stewardship

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.

The earth is the Lord's.

Earth does not need you, you need the earth. To save yourself, save the earth.

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

Words: First practice leaving no traces. Then practice leaving things better than you found them.

a dream is Lord's gift which we're obligated to manage well.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

When the land is abused, nature has a way of striking back. Land will eventually go back to what nature intended, but the cost is high. The land is what it is, no matter what man does or thinks he can do. Benteen Calder knew it, and Webb knew learned it. Hopes die and man moves on, but the land stays.

If God has given us the gift of creativity, 'much is required' in the way of our using it to his glory.

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.

We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet.

the earth, the kind and equal mother of all ought not to be monopolised to foster the pride and luxury of any men

I do not like to see any thing destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

Do keep these trees, keep all the wonderful scenery of this wonderful state unmarred by vandalism or the folly of man.

When you know that the kingdom is God's alone (though he gives it to us), that is the only thing that can lead to peace and rest. Owners are the ones who do all the worrying; stewards simply listen to the owner's desires and work to implement them. Owners are responsible for the outcome; stewards strive to be faithful.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

To keep every cog and every wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.